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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1933
Page
6
The Charleston Gazette issue from June 27 1933 includes masthead details Pestoffice entry and a quoted thought for today by Douglas Mallock urging humble effort. The item presents a period voice and typographic style typical of a 1930s West Virginia newspaper.
A newspaper summary lists 17 major measures from a special session that granted President Roosevelt extraordinary powers. Highlights include Emergency Banking Relief, suspension of gold payments, inflation measures, and vast funding shifts for veterans, housing, farming, and public works. It notes the era’s sweeping reforms amid the broader legislative collapse and ends with a quip about wordy radios.
The governor appoints Thomas B. Davis of Logan to a Capitol post and Dr. Charles Truheart Taylor of Cabell County to head Huntington State Hospital. Davis is praised for public service, while Taylor is seen as fit to replace Dr. McClung at the hospital. Dr. W. D. MeCling retires with a strong public record at Spencer and Huntington hospitals.
A reader denounces Hill Billy radio music during farm hour as an insult to farmers intellects, urges better selections, notes radio and phonographs bring quality music, and laments nasal tunes and poorly tuned instruments. The letter cites a Charleston orchestra, a prehistoric skeleton find, and warns that broader appeal is needed for civic music broadcasts.
The National Coal Association proposes a code for wage scales price fixing and district control as part of a federal stabilization plan in an industry response paced against enactment of a broad recovery law. Huntington notes curfew ineffectiveness and urges Charleston style reform, while Huntington’s Herald praises Fairmont residents for a $250,000 bank stock drive. Intermountain lauds West Virginia resilience amid economic strain.
Roosevelt plans to keep a wary eye on national industrial recovery trade codes. He instructed General Hugh Johnson to approve agreements only after review. The article recounts labor, state department antics, sugar policy schemes, and cabinet links within the era's political theater.
A letter to the Readers' Forum argues about Jeffersons constitutional limits and presidential powers, contrasting Jeffersons treaty prerogatives with modern executive actions. The writer decries socialist influence in Washington and criticizes perceived overreach in tax and spending decisions.
The piece sketches a sedate Seventh Avenue speakeasy known as No 21 with two green patches and a high iron fence, its doors kept by Jack and Charle amid discreet entrances. It recalls Libby Hotman and Smith Reynolkin, a ground-floor bar and upper dining rooms, plus curious tales of passport-denied entries and a weekend Westchester escape. A tour through Long Island City and nearby scenes follows with baseball lore, street characters, and a sidelong note on Ruth Snyder and Arnold Rothstein, ending with a wish for a Brittany chateau and untamed gardens.
Kirke Simpson surveys Roosevelt signing landmark laws re shaping the federal machinery. The piece reflects on administration aims for regulatory balance, the soon-to-be-defined agencies, and the test of the new wartime style governance. It notes leaders like Senator Wrever and the cautious mood among insiders as the regime moves from theory to practice. An Independence, Missouri item recalls a chair returned to the mayor after twenty years.
A Washington Bureau bulletin invites readers to request a cat care guide. It explains pet cat care, feeding, diseases, and breeds. Readers send a coupon with five cents in stamps to Arlington Gazette in Washington for the bulletin.
Arthur Brisbane surveys vast scales from light speed and brain neuron counts to world politics. He references Professor Shaler, German anger at tariffs and Hitler, and Hearst views on the economic conference. He also notes Ford's view on men over forty and historical lines about Alexander the Great and Keats.
Fragmented reminiscences reveal a narrator bragging about odd boasts and fears. The speaker asserts a quirky self image, mentions reading Dickens someday, discusses speech quirks, accident history, and a love of small things shaping a curious, reflective life.
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